Reichard is famous in the region for having won several state championships in NRA
Action Pistol with Smith sixguns. He's even more famous for the splendid action
jobs he does on them.

Massad Ayoob in Shooting Industry

Experts Say:

Denny Reichard, a police detective from Indiana, was shooting in the end position
with his beautifully engraved .44 Magnum and every time he fired a shot it sounded
like a cannon going off. Denny, who is also a gunsmith, was a popular man for those
of us who brought revolvers as our second guns. He would check out your revolver
and say "well, I can fix that in a minute or two" and then seemed to perform magic
with a few little turns of his screwdriver.

Linda Pendleton in Women & Guns

Experts Say:

There are those who have carried .44 Magnums strictly for the machismo of it. But most can’t handle the .44s legendarily potent recoil when put to the test. D. O. Reichard is not among them. He has won the Indian State Championships of NRA Action Shooting multiple times with his .44s. I recall shooting against D. O. Reichard in Bianchi Cup in the early ‘80s. Reichard was competing with a 6 ½ inch Model 29.

Massad Ayoob in the Guns Magazine

Experts Say:

Thank you for allowing us at your home in July for the Kubotan class. Despite years of study in HapKiDo and a form of Okinawa karate (when I was not behind a desk all day) and an advanced degree or two, I still managed to learn something (go figure). I appreciate your taking time to instruct us.

Kirk Freeman, attorney at law

Experts Say:

Denny Reichard is a bear of a man who fires some 5,000 rounds of 180-grain full power hollow-points through his duty S&W .44 Magnum every year. Needing no other gun for himself—he even shot his weapon with his duty holster at Bianchi Cup—he trains with automatic pistols solely to retain skills he can share with students who chose that type of gun for reasons as germane to them as the big Magnum was to him. He is deadly with either.

Massed Ayoob in Guns Magazine

Experts Say:

A firearms instructor for many years, D. O. Reichard also teaches for Lethal Force Institute. The gun he uses there is invariably his trademark .44 with the 180-grain, 1,600 fps load. This ammo delivers a terrific object lesson in learning how to control recoil. It also adds to the satisfaction of shooting. Those who have seen Reichard compete have nicknamed him “Rolling Thunder.” The revolver burned so hot from the powerful rounds that Reichard modified the conventional speed-reloading technique so he wouldn’t burn his hands.

Massad Ayoob in Guns Magazine

Police Duties

Full-Time Police Officer: 1974 to date

Detective & Chief Investigator for Major Crimes Unit of the Rochester Police Dept

“When Denny Reichard's daughter, Ashley, took over his gun shop, she virtually tripled
sales. There are lessons to learn from her. Dennis Reichard opened the Sand Burr
Gun Ranch in Rochester, Ind., about 22 years ago…. When Denny offered his daughter
the job of manager at Sand Burr, she was eager to get back to the world of the guns
and took him up on his offer in June 2004. Ashley Reichard, literally grew up
with a gun in her hand. She began shooting at age four with a .22 revolver. She
loved receiving guns for her birthday and Christmas presents. When she went off
to college, and later moved to California to run a microbiology lab, her customized
S & W LadySmith .38 Special went along with her. Ashley grew up with gun people,
and as a result, is fluent in every dialect of the language of firearms. Yes, she
gets a lot of, "Hey, where's the manager? I want to talk to a man about this." But
that dissipates quickly as customers realize she knows her stuff. Within a matter
of months, Ashley Reichard proved that she was more than up to the task of taking
the helm of a male-oriented business.”

Biography:
Massad Ayoob, LFI's founder, is the acknowledged expert on the use of deadly force
in self-defense by civilians. Massad had long been an advocate for the armed citizen
but his experience as a police officer illustrated to him how poorly the average
citizen understood the laws concerning deadly force. In an attempt to correct the
dangerous misconceptions on the subject, he wrote In the Gravest Extreme. The success
of the book and flood of requests for additional training it generated led to the
creation of the Judicious Use Of Deadly Force (LFI1) course and the establishment
in 1981 of LFI as a full time training academy. Over the years Massad's LFI1, continually
refined and updated, has remained the preeminent training course of its kind. Thousands
of his students have used the knowledge they have gained to prevent being injured,
arrested or sued by simple changes in their lifestyle and their response to the
actions of others.
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John Farnam

Biography:
John Farnam primary occupation, is lecturing and conducting instructional courses
in defensive firearms for police departments, civilian groups and others throughout
the US and overseas.After graduating from Cornell College with a BA in
Biology, he entered the US Marine Corps Officer Candidate Program. After being commissioned
a Second Lieutenant, he was sent to Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader. For the
next fifty-one days, he was involved in heavy fighting and was awarded three Purple
Hearts. He served the remainder of his active duty time in the United States, training
Marines. He remained in the Reserves and went on active duty several times per year
until he retired in 1987. His branch is still infantry, and his rank at retirement
was major. He has been a police officer since 1971, when he joined the City of Elroy
Police Department as a patrolman. He is presently a fully commissioned deputy sheriff
(Training Officer) for the Park County, Colorado Sheriff's Office.
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Vicki Farnam

Biography:
Vicki Farnam has ten years experience teaching law enforcement and civilian students
all across the country with her husband, John. She is vice-president of Defense
Training International, Inc., a Colorado POST certified firearms instructor, a NRA
certified instructor and a member of the International Association of Law Enforcement
Instructors. In August of 1997, she was a guest instructor at the Firearms Range
Master Certification Course at the Wyoming Law enforcement Academy. She will present
"Cross Gender Training: When Men Instruct Women and Women Instruct Men in Firearms
Training" at the IALEFI conference in September. As the Senior Handgun Instructor
for the Women's Shooting Sports Foundation, she developed the curriculum for instructor
certification courses. She has contributed articles to "Police Marksman" and other
firearms publications. As an instructor, she often works with struggling shooters
and upon request, she conducts all female law enforcement classes. In addition,
she is on the board of directors of the Colorado Ladies Charity Classic.
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